At the most basic level, human evolution is articulated through classifications of, and evolutionary relationships among, hominin species. This article presents a basic taxonomy and phylogeny of ...

The Dawn of Mankind Our journey begins in the depths of time, where our earliest ancestors roamed the earth. These prehistoric beings were far removed from the modern humans that would come to ...

Humans have evolved considerably, but that doesn't mean that early hominids didn't make decisions based on intelligence and rationality. At the site of Melka Wakena, a place with more than 1.5 ...

Once they had thought the development of a large brain or the making and use of stone tools was the pivotal early evolutionary innovation setting human ancestors, the hominids, apart from the apes.

(Early hominids, such as the Australopithecines, grew at a faster rate than modern humans.) This fossilized skull was the first Autralopithecus specimen. With a brain larger than a chimp's but ...

Claims that we ought to subscribe to a low-carb, high-protein 'paleo diet' are typically based on assertions our ancestors avoided complicated plant processing in favor of simpler meals consisting of ...

It’s possible, though, that Danuvius independently evolved a form of upright walking on tree branches that had nothing to do with the appearance of a two-legged gait in hominids, says DeSilva ...